The German Press The last week has produced several examples
of the conditions to which censorship and State control have reduced the German Press. After the attack of Mr. La Guardia, Mayor of New York, on Herr Hitler in an address to the Jewish-American League, the Angrtff described his audience as ro,000 Jewish prostitutes dragged off the streets ; this was followed by a series of attacks on the United States which would be unprintable in any other country. The American Ambassador's strong protest in Berlin was not reported in the Press, which continues its attacks. The censorship also suppressed all reports of General Goring's passionate warning to anyone who attempted to assassinate Hitler ; and of the speech in which Herr Weiss, head of the Nazi Press Institute, protested against the methods by which Julius Streicher, owner of the Stfirmer and Gauleiter of Franconia, has lately made the Press ridiculous. (Herr Streicher recently forced a number of dramatic critics to go on the stage and attempt to give a song-and-dance turn, to induce in them a fitting respect for professional artists.) At Herr Streicher's demand Herr Weiss' speech was sup- pressed, but not before a few papers had reported his com- ments on Streicher himself, on the lack of initiative in the German Press, the poor quality of what it had to offer the public and its subjection to official and unofficial intervention. Such rare signs of restiveness are instructive.
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